Volume 1

The outlines of the veterinary art; or, the principles of medicine: as applied to a knowledge of the structure, functions, and oeconomy of the horse, the ox, the sheep, and the dog, and to a more scientific and successful manner of treating their various diseases ... / by Delabere Blaine.

  • Blaine, Delabere (Delabere Pritchett), 1770-1845.
Date:
1802
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Credit: The outlines of the veterinary art; or, the principles of medicine: as applied to a knowledge of the structure, functions, and oeconomy of the horse, the ox, the sheep, and the dog, and to a more scientific and successful manner of treating their various diseases ... / by Delabere Blaine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    produce death, while in the human, it follows al- moft inftantaneoufly. From the ftrength of this mufcular coat in the capillaries, when they are fti- mulated, as in the cold fit of ague or fever, the blood is forced into the veins and large vefiels, and hence that rigor or fenfe of lhrinking} and in the human, that palenefs, or tinge of purple the fkin affumes. The cuticular coat of the arteries is very fmooth internally, by which the blood is permitted to pafs freely onwards, yet there is in lome parts little rif- ings or doublings of the membrane, whofe imme- diate ufe is not evident. The general proportion of thefe coats is not only found to vary individually, but generally; that is the proportion of the cavity of an artery to its folid Tides is not every where equal, and even varies in different parts of the fame veffel. The arteries themfelves are furnifhed with fmall arterial branches, winch ramify on their exter- nal coats. It is thought that they have likewife nerves ramified on their fubftance. Different parts are more or lefs plentifully fupplied with arteries, ac- cording to their nature j fecreting organs have ufually large trunks, as the kidneys, the brain, and fpleen. It is likewife fuppofed, that thefe are vari- oufly proportioned in various animals j and that dif- ferent animals have peculiar and appropriate ar- teries: and this feems the more likely, as we find no great variety exifting in the blood itfelf, between the human and brute, or between one brute and an- other, as is proved by the operation of transfufion, in